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« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2006, 04:01:24 PM »

I have seen the film and enjoyed it, but from the discussion going on, it does seem that I need to see the film again.
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« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2006, 10:00:36 PM »

BoyScoutKevin Wrote:
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> I have seen the film and enjoyed it, but from the
> discussion going on, it does seem that I need to
> see the film again.

Yeah same here. I saw it and liked it. Probably go out and buy it now.
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« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2006, 10:00:47 PM »

BoyScoutKevin Wrote:
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> I have seen the film and enjoyed it, but from the
> discussion going on, it does seem that I need to
> see the film again.

Yeah same here. I saw it and liked it. Probably go out and buy it now.
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« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2006, 06:16:50 AM »

It's been awhile since I've seen this movie, so I can't really talk directly about the content.

But yes, I will agree that all the "session" stuff had nothing to do directly with the rest of the movie.  But it did deal directly with the thematic elements of the rest of the movie.

You could look at it as something that was only supposed to excite the viewer as to what was going on.  The question is whether there was actually a supernatural force at work during the demolition of the asylum.  Like I belive it was loyal1 said, it was how each and every one of the characters faced their fears.

This is what I think is the movies strongest strength.  Did the "main villain" kill becuase he was nuts, or was there an evil at large in the asylum, or simply at large in the human condition?  An evil as described in the session tapes?

I don't subscribe to the theory that all details of a movie should be made explicit in a movie.  That would be to deny the power of ambiguity, where something could mean many different things of many different levels.

To approach this movie thinking it has to be that either he was simply crazy or he was affected by the asylum itself, this either/or situation is to rob it of its power.  But why would you need every movie spelled out for you?
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« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2006, 08:15:26 AM »

If you loook at the way the asylum actually affected the characters, ie..it didn't, you could've set the movie in a bowling alley and it wouldn't have changed the actual story.

Nobody confronted their fears, nobody but Gordon heard voices, nobody saw anything spooky.  Mike heard most of the tapes, but he approached them from a clinical frame of mind; he didn't seem affacted by them  For  the rest, it was just a job, until Gordon killed them.  The only one the asylum had an affect on was the viewer.  Put the story in a coin-op laundry mat and see what I mean
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